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...Church of Santi Nereo ed Achilleo, member of the Congregations of the Sacraments, of Sacred Rites, for the Oriental Church, for the Propagation of Faith. Upon bull-framed, square-jawed Cardinal Dougherty, as vigorous a man physically as the Holy Father now was frail, Pius XI had chosen to bestow a high honor, sending him as Legate a latere-spiritually and literally "from the Pope's side"-to the Congress in Manila. Emerging from the Vatican after a half-hour visit, loyally declaring that the Pope looked "well, bright and cheerful," Cardinal Dougherty said the Holy Father...
...flouts the public opinion of a nation of conservative sourpusses, and who to cap the climax says he will up and marry the girl is out and ahead of the field in the modern sport of casual iconoclasm. As such he deserves the regained prestige your title must bestow...
...Fitzgerald by electing Democrat Frank Murphy in his stead. In the contest to succeed James Couzens in the U. S. Senate, the voters picked Democratic Representative Prentiss M. Brown. Senator Couzens having died during the campaign, the Republicans had one consolation prize. Before Governor Fitzgerald left office he could bestow an honor and an honorarium on some loyal Republican by appointing him to fill out Senator Couzens' unfinished term. This week Mr. Fitzgerald made his choice. Said he: "The high office of United States Senator is nothing to toy with as a means of bestowing an honor that calls...
Robert Andrews Millikan, who measured the electric charge of the negative electron, won a Nobel Prize in 1923. Visibly moved was grey-haired Dr. Millikan last week when he heard that his young co-worker was to join him in the highest honor that Science can bestow. Asked by newshawks to say something about his "outside interests," Nobelist Anderson grinned: "In my younger school days my ambition was to become a track star, a high jumper. But it didn't work, and now my hobby is tennis. I just couldn't jump high enough...
...Friday Dr. Lowell, who first bestowed Harvard's honor on Masefield, will again be on the platform when Mr. Masefield returns in the second period of his fame to bestow honor upon Harvard...